Mirella Sahetapy Netherlands 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Still Life Professional "Home setting" Photo 'Home setting' is a still life about absence.

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Kay Erickson USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Still Life Professional "Gold Chairs" Two gold chairs sit outside in Santa Monica, California

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Stephen Perry Canada 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Still Life Professional "Hardware Catalog Cover" Cover for Lee Valley Hardware Catalog

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Gina Socrates UK Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Boats 02 "

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Annette Willis Australia Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Drought Times"

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Paul Coghlin UK Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Symbolism" A humble pomegranate. Or an ancient and powerful symbol?

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Glen McClure USA Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Car Lights, Trinidad, Cuba" From the series, Cuba

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Elena Smirnova Germany Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Think Pink"

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Sue Atkinson UK Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Cobea scandens" Last flower of the season

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Donald Netzer USA Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "cuprosecigarettes" cuprosecigarettes

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Peter Searle UK Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Peppers" Romano Peppers

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Anne-Claire Vimal du Monteil Canada Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Untitled"

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Cosimo Barletta Mayda Mason Italy Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Red brain" We are spirit but also flesh. What if meat was our brain served on a table like a surgical room?

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Bret Doss USA Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Violin 3"

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Shira Gold Canada Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "So Far I Just Can't See" Throughout the pandemic we have been told to "tow the line" to "Stay in Line" to "Follow order and stay the course." In the midst of darkness and chaos there is still the desire to seek light and hope

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Leeanne Mason Australia Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Light Painting" Using a torch and diffuser I painted these dried flowers with light in dutch masters style.

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Robert Peek Netherlands Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Flower Power" FlowerPower Blue

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Edmond Terakopian UK Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Liquid Teal" Teal Breaker ink by Diamine, specifically developed for the FPUK Teal Breaker fountain pen, conceived by Bernardo “Mr Teal” Gomes. London, UK.

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Marco Benedetti Switzerland Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Cattleya" Orchids of One Day

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Susan Richman USA Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Cicadian Rhythm"

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Andy Grimshaw UK Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Perfume"

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James Cowlin USA Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Saguaro Bud" A new arm begins to grow on a Saguaro Cactus in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.

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Victoria Parnall-Vaughan UK Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Glorious Rose"

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Frank van Driel Netherlands Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Fragment 6" Fragments is a series I started two months after my father died. The fragments are pieces of our past and fragments of old German stoneware he was in the midst of restoring one of his favorite hobbies

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Duschan Tomic Italy Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Alpine Thistle"

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Michael Stoklos USA Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Calla Lilies" interior of a flower

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Rebecca Croft Australia Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Fallen Fragments"

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Sergey Varaksin Russia Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Blue Bottle" Film camera Mamiya 645, 80/2.8, rolfilm Fujicolor

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Paul Coghlin UK Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Memento" Handmade by my wife, this is the cloth face-covering I have been using throughout the pandemic. When the global crisis has receded, I will pack it away carefully. A memento. A warning to the future.

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Diljeet Tejnani Italy Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Love Journal - Blush" Tomorrow’s Lustre

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Aqua Lin Taiwan Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Garden" The minimal concept of using RYB and choose flower to do my composition aims to bring viewer back to the pursuit of nature, a purist thought in a hustling world, and a feeling of Zen.

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Diljeet Tejnani Italy Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Freyja - Mystique Noir" Orchids in Emerald Radiance.

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Stephen Perry Canada Honorable Mention Still Life Professional "Wooden Clamps" For Lee Valley Antique Tool Calender.

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Adrian Barrett New Zealand Nominee Still Life Professional "Schnapps" Peaches in Glasses

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Alessandro Zugno Italy Nominee Still Life Professional "Painterly Still Life" Looking at these ancient objects, I was inspired to use a painterly light to bring out their past and all the things they've been through.

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Alexander Friedrich Beck Germany Nominee Still Life Professional "cuidado con el tren 1" museo de los ferrocariles en merida yucatan

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Aliona Kuznetsova USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Color: Red" Selfie in Red Tights

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Allan Gill Canada Nominee Still Life Professional "Tiger Lillies Floral Xray"

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Andrew Darlow USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Stay Off the Tracks!" I took this photograph from an overpass behind a chain-link fence. To me, this image underscores a potential danger, while in the same breath, the location offers a captivating view.

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Andy Grimshaw UK Nominee Still Life Professional "Lip Stick"

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Aneesh Omanakuttan India Nominee Still Life Professional "No Smoking" As we saw it! Heard it! “Smoking is injurious to inhale” Here I tried to present the deterioration of health caused by inhaling the smoke through the presentation of a flower, a living object in i

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Angela Di Finizio Italy Nominee Still Life Professional "Bumpers " Venice, Italy

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Anthony Verde USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Cocktail Tools" Cocktail Tools of the trade

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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Have A Seat"

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Bas van der Poel Netherlands Nominee Still Life Professional "Falling leaves" It's the end of a great day of exploring. The last location, in the middle of a big city, surrounded by high fences. Shall I go inside? At the risk of being seen by a casual passer-by. Luckily I did.

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Ben Cole Australia Nominee Still Life Professional "Sticky" ‘Sticky’ is an abstract interpretation of my mental health from the previous year. Like many people globally dealing with the challenges brought on by COVID the past year has brough on moments of

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Bret Doss USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Calla Lily 2" shot on film

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Bret Doss USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Calla Pepper"

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Brigitte de Langen Netherlands Nominee Still Life Professional "Plastic Bird - Series space" Plastic Bird - From Spacewalk series

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Carol Wontkowski USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Cascade" An attempt to show the lush exuberance of the hydrangea

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Carolyn Brown USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Frozen Renuncula" Rare Days of Winter

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Cees Rijnen Netherlands Nominee Still Life Professional "green still life flowers"

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Charles McKean Australia Nominee Still Life Professional "Show Off" Big daddy

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Chieko Tanemura USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Mementos"

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Chris Noltekuhlmann Germany Nominee Still Life Professional "Flower" Flower Moody Feel

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Darrin Jenkins UK Nominee Still Life Professional "JD light shapes" Jack Daniels with abstract light shapes

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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Family History"

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Dick Nosbisch USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Leaf Genesis #45" LEAF GENESIS

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Diego Stamato Brazil Nominee Still Life Professional "Secret Lives"

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Dina Bova Israel Nominee Still Life Professional "Not To Be" This work presents jewelry art objects created by German Kabirski, which combine the traditional and futuristic views. It uses Vanitas theme of a human scull showing the transience of life, which was

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Dmitry Saltykov Russia Nominee Still Life Professional "Apocalypse..." Creative conceptual abstraction

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Duschan Tomic Italy Nominee Still Life Professional "Head-On"

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Eduardo Loria Costa Rica Nominee Still Life Professional "Unsent messages." I have unsent messages. Words reserved out of fear, comfort, shame, pride or even worse because of what others might say. Lingering conversations and that now will never happen. Feelings that at the

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Elzbieta (Ela) Kurowska Canada Nominee Still Life Professional "Albidia 01" Albidia 01 is a reconstructed flower which I made from photoelastic organic gels, feathery seeds, and branches. The composition was captured in the cross-polarized light.

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Emilia Kashfian USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Synesthesia"

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Erica Tamburo USA Nominee Still Life Professional "untitled #6" multiple exposure photography

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Erika Fish Australia Nominee Still Life Professional "A Poppys Life" I watched a vase of poppys while I was healing from deep sadness, and its beauty and simplicity of being reminded me of who I was. I too was from nature and I could flower my feelings back to being.

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Eugenio Opitz Venezuela Nominee Still Life Professional "Almendron (Terminalia catappa)" Still life of almendron leaves and fruits in studio during pandemia,objects picked up from the garden and made in my photo studio.

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Frank Curran USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Botanica San Miguel"

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Frank van Driel Netherlands Nominee Still Life Professional "Fragment 2" Fragments is a series I started two months after my father died. The fragments are pieces of our past and fragments of old German stoneware he was in the midst of restoring one of his favorite hobbies

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Frank van Driel Netherlands Nominee Still Life Professional "Fragment 10" Fragments is a series I started two months after my father died. The fragments are pieces of our past and fragments of old German stoneware he was in the midst of restoring one of his favorite hobbies

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Gerard Luthi Switzerland Nominee Still Life Professional "Intérieur japonais"

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H. Allen Benowitz USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Corn Husks" Corn Husks hung to dry; Chitwan Jungle, Nepal

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Water Face #2" Water plants and large rock in the mill stream above Longfellow’s Wayside Inn Grist Mill near Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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Howard Paul USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Edges"

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Hugh Johnson UK Nominee Still Life Professional "Festive edible pumpkins" Selection of edible pumpkins for charity sale

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Jan Brunclik Czech Republic Nominee Still Life Professional "Royal Crown Cola" Advertising still life photography.

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Jane Therese USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Water Lily" Water Lily. Atlanta, GA.

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Janice Tieken USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Orchid Requiem: Spring" From the Orchid Requiem series a solo portrait with a sense of joyful renewal.

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Jed Grandmaison USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Forsaken Feast"

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John Siskin USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Iris"

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John Russell UK Nominee Still Life Professional "Seed, skin and rind" Sustainable development

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Josh Levine USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Red" Late Summer In Red. Municipal Parking Lot, Watchung, NJ Series

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Juan Pablo Majo Italy Nominee Still Life Professional "Ectogenesis #1" Frozen Octopus. The depths of the oceans represent the place of the unexplained and unknown, perhaps the last true frontier of our global civilization. They are the place where sea serpents, giant squ

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Judy Haberl USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Exquisite Interlude " Two of my favorite materials and colors collided in a magical and unexpected way!

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Kaoru Shibahara Japan Nominee Still Life Professional "Inherited life and memory　" there are animals that feed on the fruit of this tree, and this tree grows up to nourish the carcass of the animal. The life of living things that has continued since ancient time.

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Karen Jordan USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Door, St. Ivo" The haunting, watchful centuries-old gaze of a guardian door knocker in a 17th century church courtyard in Rome seems unaffected by time unlike its weathered surroundings.

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Karen Evans Canada Nominee Still Life Professional "Blood Red" A crocosmia still alive in winter when the snow hits.

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Kim Bova USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Form and Pattern" GiclèeTransferPrint 13"x15"approx, 2 ImageDigital Collage w/Gold Mica, Goldens Acrylic paint.

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Kim Kuhlman USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Tiny Dancers" Focus-stacked image of the florets of a Dancing Lady (Oncidium) orchid.

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Lee Meltzer USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Frontline Heroes" A simple thank you.

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Leeanne Mason Australia Nominee Still Life Professional "Scarcity" Adopting the Dutch Masters Style where normally would be a table abundant with food and drink, my image reflects on scarcity where the pear must be cut into several slices to be shared amongst many, t

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Lisa Hause USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Life in Isla Mujeres"

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Luciano Koenig Ecuador Nominee Still Life Professional "Wabi Sabi. Imperfect Beauty" Wabi-Sabi. Imperfect Beauty. Wabi-Sabi is "the¨ quintessence of Japanese aesthetics. It is the beauty of imperfect, changeable and incomplete things. It is the beauty of modest and humble things.

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Maja Strgar Kurecic Croatia Nominee Still Life Professional "Elvira's Peony" This photo is from the Floating Garden series.

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Margrieta Jeltema Italy Nominee Still Life Professional "gathering"

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Mark Coote New Zealand Nominee Still Life Professional "Up" Road marking on the footpath in Paekakariki, New Zealand

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Mark Coote New Zealand Nominee Still Life Professional "RGB" Lukes Lane in Wellington, New Zealand

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Mathew Schwartz USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Legend Fighters " Part of the light festival in south korea

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Matteo Cirenei Italy Nominee Still Life Professional "Pandemic Sunflowers" parasols dry in the sun after disinfection

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Mel Karlberg USA Nominee Still Life Professional "U-turn" The poetry of the ordinary captured after a wrong turn on a Missouri backroad

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Milo Brown UK Nominee Still Life Professional "Winter Gourds" Winter Still Life of Gourds. Photographed in the style of the Dutch Masters North Light Paintings

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Monique Felber Switzerland Nominee Still Life Professional "light of love" Dandelions on a foggy meadows in a fineart version

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Morten Saele Norway Nominee Still Life Professional "Forget me not" Small flower with a large meaning.

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Pal Hermansen Norway Nominee Still Life Professional "Insect diversity." Insects accidentally trapped in a lamp. These insects, that we do not see, is seriously declining. That is dramatic for everybody.

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Patrick Tregenza USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Savoy"

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Peter Arnold UK Nominee Still Life Professional "Shabha" THAI SHABHA - BEAUTIFUL HYBRID HIBISCUS FLOWER

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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Still Life Professional "New Growth #2" An epicormic bud emerges from a Eucalypt trunk after a wildfire.

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Rainer Thrum Germany Nominee Still Life Professional "Seasonal hope"

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Reed Davis USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Bird of Paradise" A Bird of Paradise in a green glass bottle

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Richard Radstone USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Inanimate abjekts - plate 01" From my ongoing series, Inanimate abjekts: A study of thing we tend to ignore, take for granted, or simply... just throw away.

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Richard Le Manz Spain Nominee Still Life Professional "Artillery" The juxtaposition of the syringe (symbol and hope of the solution to Covid 19) with the cannon (bringing to mind the warlike language used in the fight against the virus), makes the image contemporary

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Richard Westerhuis Netherlands Nominee Still Life Professional "Yellow Dress" Yellow Dress from 'Is This The Poem I Promised You?' - Richard Westerhuis

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Robert Maynard UK Nominee Still Life Professional "Palms "

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Robert Grimm USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Madre Red"

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Ron Schwager USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Abstract in Grey and Orange" A study in textures and minimal color palette against grey.

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Roos Hobe Netherlands Nominee Still Life Professional "Luckily the most important parts have been preserved."

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Rose Thompson USA Nominee Still Life Professional "In a second" All those blues

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Rotem Pushinsky USA Nominee Still Life Professional "the last drop"

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Saori Kurioka USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Life Is Art" Life is art, Art is life.

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Seb Michel Switzerland Nominee Still Life Professional "Elmnts - Water Ice #17" This photographic research is base on a graphic and minimalist approach, to unveil the mysterious beauty of water, in its solid form. I created this visual as a meditative artwork inspired by ELMNTS.

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Seth Benson USA Nominee Still Life Professional "untitled #1"

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Simone Madeo Italy Nominee Still Life Professional "Still Life with Flowers"

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Stephanie Girouard Canada Nominee Still Life Professional "Pharmaceutical still life"

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Stephen Cook USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Travel Writer in Rome" I have a penchant for studio still lives, especially if I can imitate a real situation. Covid's curtailing of travel intensified my longing for Italy. I imagined what my hotel room might look like in

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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Light From Angels" Light from Angels, Paris, light streaming through the stained glass, creates an ethereal effect on the stone basin. It may be supercharging the Holy Water...not sure?

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Sue Vo-Ho Canada Nominee Still Life Professional "Clover" They go unnoticed because their tiny size hides them among the weeds. They hide a delicate beauty. In summer, I loved picking them so much when I was little. So I lingered on doing it again, the insta

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T. J. Hankins USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Bugs" A triptych featuring colorful insects.

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Tabea Mathern Germany Nominee Still Life Professional "Social Distancing " An image out of my series 'Quarantine Diaries' about a state of mind at the beginning of the pandemic that many of us can relate t. And trying to turn all those images and emotions into cheerful image

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Tammy Swarek USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Rebecca Anne" You would have been 60, but you left too soon

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Ted Morrison USA Nominee Still Life Professional "Carbonated Zinnia" A selection from the Carbonated Zinnia portfolio

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Thierry Cerpolet Canada Nominee Still Life Professional "La Foret Bleue" Sticking out from a somewhat rounded mount, these blue metal bars give impression to be in the heart of a blue turquoise metallic forest - Montreal (QC)

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Timothy A. Campbell Canada Nominee Still Life Professional "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" Snowageddon

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Ursula Stiglitz Austria Nominee Still Life Professional "afloat"

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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Still Life Professional "Bloom"

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Wesley Dombrecht Belgium Nominee Still Life Professional "Green tomato 'Seeds' serie" Some of my previous work has been around 'sprouting' & the evolution of this process in foods…now i found the inspiration in the first step....the development of the seed by the cycle of nature....T

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Wilma Roesch Germany Nominee Still Life Professional "Red Balls" After a few meters up in the tree, the fruits came together on a flat surface - this is normally a mirroe...

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